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brother's gifts to the same house.' His son Adam de 

 Heley, son of Gilbert de Salesbury, gave all the dead 

 wood in his woodland lying between Heley Brook 

 and Weteley Brook and all the iron ore within his 

 land of Salesbury.' Gilbert and Hugh, sons of Adam 

 de Heley, were also benefactors to Sawley." Before 

 1 24.1 Gilbert acquired lands from his cousin Richard 

 son of Ralph, who had no male heir,' and was living 

 in 1257, when he and his brother Hugh served as 

 jurors. John eldest son of Gilbert was the last of his 

 line, and in 1288 gave his messuage with 3 oxgangs 

 of land to Hugh de Clitheroe, whose father had married 

 the heiress of the younger line of the family of Sales- 

 bury.* 



Returning to Waldeve son of Ulf kil de Salesbury, 

 who appears to have had half the township, we find him 

 giving to the monks of Sawley in the latter part of the 

 1 2th century, with the assent of Gilbert his lord and 

 Ralph his heir, a parcel of land, iron ore and dead 

 wood for charcoal, and such necessary help in his wood 

 as would suffice and as pertained to I J oxgangs of his 

 land in Salesbury. Ralph son of Waldeve confirmed and 

 gave the monks other lands here ' to the help of their 

 church and edifices ' at Sawley.' Richard son of Ralph 

 added gifts of land in places called Haselene Holth, 

 the Mere, Huctrede's Greave, Claifurlang, the Kar 

 by the riddings of Robert son of Adam, Ribbi and 

 Award, Foxhole Clough, 4 acres in the field between 

 Salesbury and Dinckley, the Suere, and near the rid- 

 dings of Henry Kigelepeni and Siward son of Gilbert.'" 

 Before 1241 he gave part of his lands to his cousin 

 Gilbert, as already related, and a few years earlier 

 gave the whole half of one-sixth part of the town to 

 William the clerk of Clayton, with the yearly service 

 of 5.^. to the chief lord." He probably died in 1240, 

 for in that year the justices in eyre awarded seisin 

 of the fourth part of the township to his daughters 



Agnes and Avice in a suit against their cousin Hugh 

 son of Ranulf." A few years later Edmund de Lacy, 

 constable of Chester, purchased I oxgang of land from 

 these ladies, which he granted to Hugh son of Ranulf 

 de Salesbury, with the service of 1 8/. per annum." 



Ranulf, younger brother of Richard de Salesbury, 

 was the father of Hugh, who increased his estates in 

 the township by marriage with Margery sister and 

 heir of Hugh de Heley." He was living in 1268, 

 when his cousins Agnes and Avice were demanding 

 from him a tenement here, perhaps that which they 

 had sold to Edmund de Lacy." He had issue five 

 daughters : Cecily, who became the wife of Hugh de 

 Clitheroe about 1265 ; Dionisia, often called Diana, 

 who married Thomas ' le Someter ' son of William de 

 Hulton, by whom she had issue a son Adam, who 

 died young ; Matilda died young ; Agnes and Alice, 

 who do not appear to have married.'" 



Those who bore the name of Clitheroe during 

 the reigns of Henry III and 

 Edward I formed a very 

 numerous clan around Clithe- 

 roe. Karnwath Bussel of 

 Clitheroe had a numerous 

 progeny, of whom Ralph was 

 probably the father of Hugh 

 de Clitheroe, the husband of 

 Cecily de Salesbury." Hugh 

 died in or before 1272, leav- 

 ing issue Hugh, who acquired 

 a considerable estate in Clithe- 

 roe and Salesbury." In 1296 

 he purchased from Thomas 

 de Hulton and his wife Dionisia their estate in the 

 manor, and in 1 31 1, as Hugh de Salesbury, was 

 returned as holding the manors of Salesbury and 

 Little Pendleton in thegnage." He was succeeded 



Clitheroe. Gules a 

 saltire engrailed or. 



'Sawley Reg. (Had. MS. 112), foL 

 So-i ; Whitaker, ff^halley (ed. 1876), ii, 



371- 



^ Ibid. 8li ; Witnesses : Geoffrey dean 

 of Whalley, Henry parson of Blackburn 

 and Roger clerk of Blackburn. Date 

 before 1 2 14. 



Siward younger son of Gilbert de Sales- 

 bury was amerced in 1246 for removing 

 an outlaw's chattels ; Assise R, (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 86. In 1235 his elder 

 brother released his claim to an oxgang 

 of land in return for the grant of a parcel 

 of land between Brade medwe and 

 Clouwes ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 70. He had issue William 

 and Adam. 



6 Sawley Reg. 81. 



' Towneley MS. HH, no. 178. Richard 

 describes Gilbert as 'my lord.' The lands 

 lay (i) near the house of Randulf de 

 Salesbury by his pathway to Heley Brook, 

 up the brook to Clayton Mill, and along 

 the hedge of Clayton to Mereclough Eilsy 

 (;>. the clough forming the boundary 

 against Eilsy's land) j (2) all he had in 

 ICetelle's Hurst, viz. from the house of 

 Richard and Henry up to Bruchet gate, 

 along that ' gate ' to Dunekedeley (Dinck- 

 ley) townfield, thence eastward by the 

 skirt of the wood and down by Mereclogh 

 to Ribble j (3) his share within bounds 

 beginning at ' Sexlondes hendes ' up the 

 6yke to Tunderley wall following the 

 syke to Hesemor, by the skirt of the wood 

 to the metes of Wlypesyre (Wilpshire), 

 down by those metes to Weteley Brook 

 and so to Sexlondes ends. 



Gilbert son of Adam de Salesbury gave 

 to Robert son of Orme de Radeclive and 

 his heirs by Winhaue * my aunt ' lands in 

 Heley next John Winemenke's land, in 

 exchange for land which ' my grandfather 

 Gilbert ' gave him in free marriage with 

 his daughter Winhaue ; ibid. DD, no. 

 1969. 



** Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 165; Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 1959. The grant had been preceded 

 by several exchanges of land ; ibid. HH, 

 no. 176 ; DD, no. io8g. 



Hugh de Clitheroe also acquired lands 

 from John son of William, which William 

 was youngest brother of Gilbert and Hugh 

 de Salesbury; ibid. DD, no. 1957. 



' Sawley Reg. 80. Ralph's gifts were 

 made temp. John. 



" Ibid. iob. The field between Sales- 

 bury and Dinckley had quite recently 

 been set out, pertieata et menmrata ; he 

 gave 4 acres in it. 



11 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1970. 



1^ Assize R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 30. 



IS Towneley MS. (Chet. Lib.), C 8, 

 8. This was subsequently known as the 

 * earl's oxgang,' and was given by Hugh 

 de Salesbury to his daughters Diana and 

 Alice with the services of William de 

 Heley 6d., William son ef Siward 22i/., 

 and William de Clayton 21. ; Towneley 

 MS. DD, no. 1955. 



1* Hugh de Heley son of Adam gave to 

 Hugh son of Ranulf de Salesbury with 

 Margery his sister in free marriage land 

 upon Haresrays field called Neherflat, 



adjoining land of Award Hurstrange ; 

 ibid. DD, no. 2081. 



Agnes daughter of Ranulf de Salesbury 

 (and Alice her sister) brought many pleas 

 in the king's court between 1 269 and 1 279 

 against (i) Adam de Blackburn, Adam 

 (the younger) son of Gilbert de Salesbury 

 and others for making waste of wooda 

 which were held pro indiuho ; Curia Regis 

 R. 194, m. 13, 202, m. 26 ; (2) Thomas 

 de Hulton and Diana his wife, as mesne 

 tenants, to acquit her of service demanded 

 by Henry de Lacy ; ibid. 208, m. 28 d. ; 

 (3) the tenants of Wilpshire touching 

 boundaries j De Banco R. z, m. 22 ; 

 (4.) against people of Dinckley for felling 

 her woods ; ibid. 21, m. 20 d. Agnes 

 married Richard de Bolton, and had issue 

 Richard de la Tyndihevid, whose son 

 Richard contributed a third part of the 

 subsidy levied in 1332 5 Lanes. Subs. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), xxJii, 79, His 

 estate was subsequently acquired by the 

 Clitheroes. 



1^ Pat. 52 Hen. IH (85), m. 12 d. 



" Towneley MS. DD, no. 2079, 2085 ; 

 Lanes. Assize R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), xlvii, 127. There are a large 

 number of documents relating to grants 

 of land to and from these sisters in 

 Towneley MSS. DD and HH. 



1' Ibid. DD, no. 1983-2130. 



^^ Exeerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii, 



585. 



1^ Final Cone, (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 182 ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 

 2045 ^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 12. In 1305 he 



